but why not spend the few bits to make it clear what its intended for - the 
pushback on that simple request puzzles me
I do not understand the reluctance

if it is so far outside of the area covered by the document why not simply 
remove it?

Scott

> On Jun 14, 2020, at 5:14 PM, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Scott -
> 
> Allow me to inject myself here. As editor of the companion IS-IS document 
> (draft-ietf-isis-te-app) I have received similar comments - for example from 
> Ben (copied on this thread).
> 
> I continue to be at a loss as to why you believe we have to say something 
> about User Defined Applications beyond what we have already said:
> 
> "User Defined Application Identifier Bits have no relationship to
>   Standard Application Identifier Bits and are not managed by IANA or
>   any other standards body."
> 
> If you do a search through both documents using "standard app" and "user 
> defined app" I think you will find equivalent statements about both. Which 
> means you are asking for some text regarding UDAs that doesn’t exist for SAs.
> Why? 
> 
> The question of "UDA scope" - raised by both you and Ben - I think is an 
> example of something that isn’t needed.
> 
> Link attributes have been advertised for years - and the ability to define 
> the appropriate scope (area or domain) has been supported by implementations 
> for many years. While we are changing the format of how link attributes are 
> advertised, we aren't altering the scopes supported.
> 
> Standard applications can be (and have been) supported area wide and/or 
> domain wide - and no restriction/specification of what scopes SHOULD/MUST be 
> supported is present in either document other than to specify the type of 
> LSAs in which the advertisements may appear. And since the new TLV introduced 
> to carry application specific advertisements carries both SA and UDA bit 
> masks in the same TLV, clearly the available scopes are the same for both 
> types of applications.
> 
> For me, the fact that UDA is outside the scope of standardization means the 
> less said about how UDAs might be used the better.
> 
> Do we have common ground here?
> 
>   Les
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Scott Bradner via Datatracker <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 12:23 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; last-
>> [email protected]
>> Subject: Opsdir telechat review of draft-ietf-ospf-te-link-attr-reuse-14
>> 
>> Reviewer: Scott Bradner
>> Review result: Ready
>> 
>> I have reviewed the latest version of this document and my earlier issues
>> have
>> been resolved at least well enough for teh document to be considered ready
>> for
>> publication.
>> 
>> that said I still do not see where "User Defined Application Identifier" is
>> actually cleanly defined - one can read carefully and determine but it would
>> be
>> easier on the reader to just say that it is a field that can be used to
>> indicate the use of one or more non-standard applications within some scope
>> (network, subnet, link, organization, ... not sure what scopes are meaningful
>> here but it does not seem that a User Defined Application Identifier would
>> be a
>> global (between network operators) value
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
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